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1.		How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions (nytimes.com)
		452 points by jlees on June 15, 2012 \| 232 comments
2.		The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable (ifixit.org)
		353 points by PedroCandeias on June 15, 2012 \| 341 comments
3.		9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians (wired.com)
		341 points by bcl on June 15, 2012 \| 115 comments
4.		The Oatmeal's lawyer responds to FunnyJunk (scribd.com)
		275 points by engtech on June 15, 2012 \| 97 comments
5.		Tech press misses Google/Amazon name grab (scripting.com)
		268 points by davewiner on June 15, 2012 \| 189 comments
6.		A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison (venturebeat.com)
		242 points by bane on June 15, 2012 \| 66 comments
7.		How Depressives Surf the Web (nytimes.com)
		219 points by sew on June 15, 2012 \| 112 comments
8.		Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown) (allthingsd.com)
		222 points by mlinsey on June 15, 2012 \| 49 comments
9.		Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon (dropbox.com)
		213 points by czottmann on June 15, 2012 \| 145 comments
10.		Yammer agrees to Microsoft's $1 billion acquisition offer (wsj.com)
		208 points by theli0nheart on June 15, 2012 \| 92 comments
11.		The Slow Web (jackcheng.com)
		205 points by rguzman on June 15, 2012 \| 40 comments
12.		How 30 days without social media changed my life (stevecorona.com)
		196 points by stevencorona on June 15, 2012 \| 104 comments
13.		How to Talk to Human Beings (codinghorror.com)
		179 points by stalled on June 15, 2012 \| 76 comments
14.		Newegg Still Telling Customers That Installing New OS Violates Return Policy (consumerist.com)
		171 points by mayneack on June 15, 2012 \| 75 comments
15.		Heroku down? (heroku.com)
		155 points by neeleshs on June 15, 2012 \| 67 comments
16.		Announcing SPDY draft 2 implementation in nginx (nginx.org)
		145 points by lysol on June 15, 2012 \| 28 comments
17.		THN Magazine Stole Our Code and Design (hackermonthly.com)
		142 points by dualogy on June 15, 2012 \| 133 comments
18.		Amazon EC2 down? (amazon.com)
		140 points by vini on June 15, 2012 \| 60 comments
19.		Hacker Workspaces (coderwall.com)
		135 points by bitsweet on June 15, 2012 \| 115 comments
20.		The Anatomy of Profitable Freemium (wensing.tumblr.com)
		133 points by wensing on June 15, 2012 \| 26 comments
21.		Super-star programmers (economist.com)
		126 points by lauterthanbombs on June 15, 2012 \| 121 comments
22.		How Long Before VPNs Become Illegal? (torrentfreak.com)
		105 points by nthitz on June 15, 2012 \| 59 comments
23.		FLAC.js, Aurora, and the Future of Web Audio (badassjs.com)
		106 points by devongovett on June 15, 2012 \| 32 comments
24.		Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)
		100 points by timr on June 15, 2012 \| 110 comments
25.		Why your web framework should not adopt Rack API (plataformatec.com.br)
		90 points by carlosgaldino on June 15, 2012 \| 18 comments
26.		Introducing SPDY (cloudflare.com)
		88 points by jgrahamc on June 15, 2012 \| 18 comments
27.		X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library (mozilla.github.com)
		91 points by dandonkulous on June 15, 2012 \| 46 comments
28.		Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish (geek.com)
		82 points by raywalters on June 15, 2012 \| 88 comments
29.		Amazon RDS failure - data has been lost
		82 points by akhkharu on June 15, 2012 \| 47 comments
30.		My Perception of CoffeeScript (leongersing.tumblr.com)
		82 points by activestylus on June 15, 2012 \| 55 comments
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